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Originally Posted by kansaskyle
When these discussions come up, I always wonder what it was like back in the day when they were transitioning from scrolls to bound books.
Where there people that would get all nostalgic and say that a real "story" was one you read on a scroll versus one you turned via pages?
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Good point. A similar thing probably happened when books went from being primarily handwritten by monks to printed by a printing press. Aristocratic kids probably preferred handwritten books. For example, when a Mom asked her kids if they have finished reading their books they could respond.
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No, Mom, the monks in the back say it will take another 10 years to finish the book you asked them to copy"
After the invention of the printing press kids had to come up with other excuses not to read books.